The Adventurer is an ITC Entertainment

ITC Entertainment

The Incorporated Television Company was a British television company largely involved in production and distribution. It was founded by Lew Grade.-History:...

 TV adventure series created by Dennis Spooner

Dennis Spooner

Dennis Spooner was an English television screenwriter and story editor, known primarily for his programmes about fictional spies and his work in children's television in the 1960s...

 that ran for one season from 1972 to 1973. It premiered in the UK on 29 September 1972. The show starred Gene Barry

Gene Barry

Gene Barry was an American stage, screen, and television actor. Barry is best remembered for his leading roles in the films The Atomic City and The War of The Worlds and for his portrayal of the title character in the TV series Bat Masterson, among many roles.-Personal life:Barry was born...

 as Gene Bradley, a government agent of independent means who poses as a glamorous American movie star.

Main cast

• Gene Barry
  Gene Barry
  Gene Barry was an American stage, screen, and television actor. Barry is best remembered for his leading roles in the films The Atomic City and The War of The Worlds and for his portrayal of the title character in the TV series Bat Masterson, among many roles.-Personal life:Barry was born...
  
   as Gene Bradley
• Barry Morse
  Barry Morse
  Herbert "Barry" Morse was an Anglo-Canadian actor of stage, screen, and radio best known for his roles in the ABC television series The Fugitive and the British sci-fi drama Space: 1999...
  
   as Mr. Parminter (25 episodes).
• Catherine Schell
  Catherine Schell
  Katherina Freiin Schell von Bauschlott is an Hungarian-born actress best known for her work on British televison.Schell rose to fame in various British film and television productions in the 1960s and 1970s...
  
   as Diane Marsh (11 episodes)
• Garrick Hagon
  Garrick Hagon
  Garrick Hagon is a film, stage, television and radio actor best known for his role as Biggs Darklighter in Star Wars: A New Hope. His many films include Batman, Spy Game, Me and Orson Welles and The Message...
  
   as Gavin Taylor (10 episodes)

Supporting cast

• Dennis Price
  Dennis Price
  Dennis Price was an English actor, remembered for his suave screen roles, particularly Louis Mazzini in Kind Hearts and Coronets, and for his portrayal of the omniscient valet Jeeves in 1960s television adaptations of P. G...
  
   as Brandon (3 episodes)
• Stuart Damon
  Stuart Damon
  Stuart Damon is an American actor. He is known for thirty years of portraying the character Dr. Alan Quartermaine on the American soap opera General Hospital, for which he won an Emmy Award in 1999....
  
   as Vince Elliot (2 episodes)
• Sue Gerrard as Jane (2 episodes, plus opening titles)

Episode list

1. Miss Me Once, Miss Me Twice and Miss Me Once Again
2. Poor Little Rich Girl
3. Thrust and Counter Thrust
4. The Bradley Way
5. Return to Sender
6. Counterstrike
7. Love Always, Magda
8. Nearly the End of the Picture
9. Deadlock
10. Has Anyone Here Seen Kelly?
11. Skeleton in the Cupboard
12. Target!
13. Action!
14. Full Fathom Five
15. I'll Get There Sometime
16. To the Lowest Bidder
17. Going, Going...
18. The Not-So Merry Widow
19. Mr. Calloway Is a Very Cautious Man
20. Double Exposure
21. The Case of the Poisoned Pawn
22. The Solid Gold Hearse
23. Make It a Million
24. Icons Are Forever
25. Somebody Doesn't Like Me
26. The Good Book

DVD release

A Region 2 DVD release of the show, which features interviews with Morse, Damon and Schell, is available from Network DVD

Network DVD

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. Morse nicely sums up the series in the DVD extras: "It wasn't the worst show ever made, but it certainly wasn't the best!"

External links

• "The Morning After" ITC fansite
• The Adventurer at thevervoid.com
• The Official Barry Morse Website